12:48 AM,
Mar. 17, 2013

Golfers enjoy a warm day last spring at Devou Park Golf Course, Covington. A 200-seat events center is slated to replace the course's club house.

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Covington is closer to developing a Devou Parks events center thanks to more than $500,000 from Devou Properties Inc. that will help fund the center and improve other park amenities. The events center will replace the Devou Park Golf Course Clubhouse, a structure built in 1934 that has been deteriorating for years.

"We hope to have it under construction in early fall after golf season, with a spring 2014 opening date," City Manager Larry Klein said Friday.

"The clubhouse is quite dated. The better alternative is to do a new building," said Barbara Drees, chair of the board of Devou Properties ...